A Texas City police officer has been charged with driving while intoxicated after investigators say he crashed head-on into a stopped pick-up truck early Tuesday morning.

According to the Texas City Police Department, Officer Adan Hernandez was off-duty and driving in his personal Ford pickup at the time of the crash.

About 5:40 a.m., Hernandez's colleagues with the Texas City Police Department responded to a minor accident on the 400 block of State Highway 146 south. They found Hernandez in the driver seat of his truck, appearing to be intoxicated.

Texas City police say Hernandez was traveling northbound on 146 when he struck a Ford Ranger head-on. The Ford Ranger was stopped in a turn lane waiting to turn east onto FM-1765, police said. The driver of the Ford Ranger was not injured.

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The Department of Public Safety and Galveston County Sheriff's Office were called out to the scene to further investigate whether Hernandez was intoxicated. Believing he was, police arrested Hernandez for driving while intoxicated. His bond was set at $1,000.

Texas City police were not immediately available to discuss possible disciplinary action that will be taken against Hernandez, or whether he had been disciplined in the past.

This is not the first time within the past year that a Texas City officer has faced criminal charges.

In September, ex-cop Linnard Crouch was indicted for felony theft after he allegedly stole more than $2,000 from a dying grandpa's pocket--while Crouch was in uniform, performing official duties.

In December 2016, James Mabe's wife had given him $2,400 to go purchase family Christmas presents, but worried when she did not hear from him. Mabe's heart went out while he was driving in his pickup truck in Texas City, and Officer Crouch had responded to the scene when passers-by reported a vehicle on the side of the road. In Mabe's pocket was the wad of a couple dozen $100 bills.

Mabe was unresponsive and transported to the hospital, where he died--and where Officer Crouch returned to Mabe's wife a single $100 bill and a wad of $1 bills that he said he recovered from Mabe, according to a July lawsuit the Mabe family filed against Crouch. The lawsuit accused him of stealing the rest of the money, an allegation reflected in the Galveston County indictment in September.

Crouch resigned in January 2016 when faced with the allegations, as well as Crouch's own body camera footage showing that Crouch "removed money from Mr. Mabe's right front pocket he appears not to have reported," according to a January internal memo written by Texas City Police Chief Robert Burby.